Carol Vorderman Quotes
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
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If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
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Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.
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After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I needed to go somewhere because that was the longest I never travelled.
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It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
